Netcraft Adds Five of the Top 12 U.S. Financial Institutions in 2026 as Takedown Volume Accelerates

SALT LAKE CITY and LONDON, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Netcraft, the global leader in cybercrime detection and disruption, today announced that in 2026, five more of the top 12 U.S. financial institutions have selected the firm to provide next-generation digital risk protection services, helping to stop AI-enabled threats before they reach consumers. Netcraft now defends seven of the 12 top financial institutions in the U.S. and nine of the world's top 15 banks, alongside public and private enterprises of all sizes.

Netcraft's growth among leading financial institutions reflects what organizations now expect from external threat protection: a multichannel automated approach to find threats, compile evidence, and take down criminal infrastructure, significantly reducing the burden on security teams. Additionally, Netcraft passed 4.1 million takedowns for 2026 in early September, eclipsing its entire 2025 total. This significant increase in takedowns is driven by accelerating new customer growth, increasing volumes of AI-driven attacks, and expanding coverage with solutions like Preemptive Domain Disruption, Phone Scam Disruption, and enhanced social media protection.

Ryan Woodley, CEO, Netcraft, said: "Earning the trust of five more of the U.S.'s largest banks represents another critical moment in the growth and evolution of Netcraft. Surpassing 4.1 million takedowns also shows the scale and scope of the impact we have on the global threat ecosystem. These are important milestones for Netcraft, and their real value lies in the criminal infrastructure removed and the harm prevented. Our commitment to building solutions that support our mission to protect the world from cybercrime remains the reason we grow."

Banks are focused on solutions that turn intelligence into action

Financial institutions experience abuse across a fragmented attack surface: phishing sites, lookalike domains, social media impersonation, malicious ads, mobile apps, messaging platforms, phone numbers, and scam infrastructure on the deep and dark web. Netcraft combines internet-scale detection from curated and proprietary data with intelligent action, advanced classification and evidence, and privileged access across internet infrastructure to move a threat from discovery to validation and removal.

A vice president for brand protection for a leading U.S. financial institution said: "Netcraft is detecting threats our previous coverage was missing and getting them taken down quickly. The automation is fantastic across social, phishing, phone numbers, and ads. We're seeing strong results that continue to save our team many hours each week. The solution has become a key element of our security stack."

Attacking the economics of cybercrime

Criminals are using automation, generative AI, and mature phishing-as-a-service tooling to produce more convincing attacks, in more variants, across more channels. Detection alone does not change that math for criminals. Removing the infrastructure quickly and repeatedly does, raising the cost of each campaign and shortening the victimization window during which criminal ROI builds. Netcraft's early detection, intelligence automation to validate and package evidence, and benchmark-setting disruption speed flip the ROI calculation in favor of defenders.

As Netcraft's customer base grows, every takedown informs better detection and faster classification, creating a network effect that builds resilience for every new and existing customer.

About Netcraft

Netcraft is a global leader in online brand protection and digital risk management, trusted by CISOs and security teams at many of the world's most valuable companies, largest banks, government organizations, and emerging enterprises. Leveraging AI, machine learning, and automation to process more threat data than any other provider, Netcraft takes down nearly one-third of the world's phishing sites and has blocked 230+ million multi-channel threats to date. Backed by a deep network across the internet infrastructure ecosystem, Netcraft delivers unmatched visibility, speed, and accuracy at scale to disrupt criminal behavior and secure online trust for consumers around the globe. Learn more at www.netcraft.com.

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